Natural hazards · Sweet Home

Sweet Home, AR natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sweet Home comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Sweet Home?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sweet Home to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding38%Earthquakes37%Tornadoes14%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Sweet Home faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

37% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 36 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Sweet Home flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Sweet Home.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Sweet Home isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Pulaski County.

Disasters that hit Sweet Home

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Sweet Home itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Sweet Home.

Brought FEMA money into Sweet HomeDeclared for Pulaski County only

2025

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $3K aid approved

2023

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Associated Flooding

2 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

Pulaski County has had 28 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Sweet Home is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Sweet Home’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Sweet Home. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.